PW: "So I take it Mark that you don`t believe Hamas is an obstacle to peace?"
No. They can be sidelined by accepting their offer of a 10 year truce.
PW: "You don`t think their violence is an issue?"
No. That is an issue only while Israel insists that the only answer to Hamas-violence is IDF-violence.
Accept the 10 year truce, and that issue goes away for 10 years.
PW: "charter to reclaim Israel?"
The Likud policy platform says that there will be no Palestinian state.
Yet nobody considers that policy platform a nonstarter - just a non-event.
PW:"None of these things will get in the way of peace?"
They all Get In Israel`s Way, yeah, Peter.
Sure. They do.
But Israel has a way around all of them, and simply refuses to take it.
Ergo, Israel prefers a world where Hamas is in its way over a world where Hamas are sidelined.
That doesn`t seem very sensible to me, but no doubt you have no doubts, Peter..... |
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